Burning Amp 2023!

[bhjazz]

Day 1 of the BAF 2023 road trip down the coast is done. pinholer and I are in Seaside, Oregon for the night.

That's the sort of weather we Pacific Northwesterner's dream of. Bring on the ☕

 

[DualTriode]

Hello All,

The hotel reservations, event tickets for both days and driving directions are clipped to the refrigerator ready to go.

Driving down from the NorCal Coast on Friday.

Mexican food Friday night!

Anyone need help setting up Saturday morning? What Time?

Otherwise I am going for the big breakfast.

Thanks DT

 

[GKTAUDIO]

There are a ton of good restaurants in and around town. These are breakfast/brunch recommendations from personal experience:

For sit-down breakfast, try Marvin's. One of the most popular of the long-established spots.
For Mediterranean style, try Pearl. Outstanding.
Acre Coffee for those going with a cup of good Joe and pastry.
Pete's Henny Penny, a mile or so north of the meeting site - solid, tasty American food and easier parking than heading into old town.

No personal experience, but lots of good comments from friends:
Mr. Mom's
Dr. Insomniac's Fine Coffee
Tortilla Real
Sax's Joint
Cafe Bellini
Water Street Bistro

Great food truck: El Roy's. Excellent, if a little spicy for me, and really popular so sometimes a long wait. Very close to the venue.

I could go on forever.

Oh wait... Real Doner. Great Turkish food.

I'll stop now.

 

[tonyEE]

Adam,

I will be getting the schedule shortly, but Build Camp will be in the morning, seminars in the afternoon. Be there at 9am or shortly after.

-Tom-

I hope we have LOTS OF COFFEE.... what time?

It always figures.. the hardware guys like to show up at 5:30AM... us software guys waltz in at around 10:30AM.

 

[tonyEE]

Day 1 of the BAF 2023 road trip down the coast is done. pinholer and I are in Seaside, Oregon for the night.

Hmm.. it's a one day drive from BC to the Bay Area.... take the 5, then go West at Grants Pass ( drive though some awesome trees )... then get on the 101 South ( drive through yet some more awesome trees ) and go down to Santa Rosa / Petaluma.

But then, we do the 1200 miles from SoCal to the Puget Sound in single 17 hour drives... Oregon is the slowest part of the drive.

But, BUT.. somehow... how did you end up in Seaside, Oregon? That's like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of the way! Unless you really want to drive the rainy road and your wipers are in good shape -down here, in SoCal, we usually sell the car before we got to replace the wipers... Last Christmas I asked the dealer to replace the wipers... he thought I was like.. nuts!..... I told him we were driving up to the North West.... Oh! he understood.

 

[tonyEE]

That's the sort of weather we Pacific Northwesterner's dream of. Bring on the ☕

Yikes...

The one thing I miss when driving past Kelso is the lack of good espresso carts right off the freeway.... There is one at South Weed... get off the South Weed exit, go East, past the stop sign, on the far left side of the next intersection, by the gas station... espresso!

 

[Ben Mah]

Hi TonyEE,

This is not our first rodeo - just reliving the past. The last time we did the coast route, it took one and a half weeks. That was slow and strenuous. There were many beer stops to replenish our fluids because our only mode of transportation were bicycles.

By the way, I have done the I-5 route a couple of times.

But this is a slow and relaxing vacation.

We made it to Coos Bay today. California here we come (tomorrow). 🙂

 

[DualTriode]

We made it to Coos Bay today. California here we come (tomorrow). 🙂

love the sea stacks.

 

[Ben Mah]

Some more:

 

[Tom V]

BRING YOUR CHECKBOOKS!

The auction will be lit! Here is some of the Papa Treasure I just brought back from Sea Ranch:

Nelson Pass built amps from the initial runs of 10 that Nelson builds for Firstwatt:

• F5
• F6
• F7
• 2 Korg B1s in FirstWatt cases, never became a production item.

- 4 ACA Minis

- 5 pairs 2SK180 SIT NOS Tokins

- ESS Headphones (new in box)

- 2 pairs GRS 15" woofers

- 1 pair Emininence 8" coax

- 1 pair GRS 8" woofer

- 1 pair Goldwood 8" woofer

And of course the 31 pairs of Zenductors for the Build Camp

 

[Tom V]

I got an email from Toobhed. He writes:

Hi Tom,

Closet cleaning time...if I haven't built these yet, aint gonna happen. so.....Lots of stuff for the auction and the raffle...I suppose the higher value stuff will be auction and the lower value raffle.

1) 2 pairs of planet 10 minifonken flatpacs, all baffles milled for Markaudio CHR/CHP 70 drivers...I'll have one pair of CHPs for one flatpac, 1 pair CHR's for the other
http://p10hifi.net/FAL/downloads/mFonken-1v1dot1-map-271009.pdf
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-4-fullrange/markaudio-chp-70-gen2-natural-paper/
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.c...audio-chr-70-brushed-metal-cone-4-full-range/

2) 1 pair of drivers, hardware, pre-assembled crossover boards...everything but the cabinets (but cabinets plans/size are online) for Zaph 2 ways
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/2-way-speaker-kits/zaph|audio-za5.2-tm-2-way-pair/

3) 1 pair drivers, hardware, pre-assembled crossover boards...everything but cabs for GR MTM speaker kit
https://gr-research.com/product/x-mtm-encore

4) 1 pair fostex ff105wk
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-4-fullrange/fostex-ff105wk-4-full-range/
5) 3 pairs of HiVi full range drivers...good for line array or 3 separate pairs of small computer speakers
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-4-woofers/hi-vi-b4n-4-aluminum-cone-wide-band/

6) 1 pair Fountek matched 3" drivers
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-3-fullrange/fountek-fe85-3-aluminum-cone-full-range/

7) 3 pairs Peerless 3"
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-3-fullrange/vifa-tc9fd18-08-3.5-full-range/

8) 1 pair Markaudio CHN-70's
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.com/approx-4-fullrange/markaudio-chn-70-paper-cone-full-range/

9) pair of homemade 5" woofers in sealed cabs...

10) 1 pair Fostex FE103en....
https://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/speaker_components/pdf/FE103En.pdf

11) two or three pairs of Aurasound 3"
https://www.madisoundspeakerstore.c...urasound-ns3-193-8a1-3-black-cone-wide-range/

...Should keep the GreedyBoyz happy,

Mario

 

[Tom V]

BAF’23 Schedule as of now:

SATURDAY
9am Doors Open - Setup - Registration
10am-Noon Build Camp
10:30-5:45 CONF 2 Listening Room
11:30-1:30 La Esquisita Taco Truck
Noon-1:00 Build Camp Cleanup
1:00 on Auction and Raffle Setup
1:00-3:00 Scott Hinson - 2.83V/1M is the spec, but what is the measurement?
3:00-5:00 Mike Rothacher - LTSpice Basic and Beyond for DIY Audio
6:00 Doors Closed

SUNDAY
9am Door Open - Setup - Registration
9:30-11:00 Project Display Assignments (Activity, CONF2, & Pass rooms)
10:00-1:00 Scott Hinson measuring participant speakers
11:00-7:00 Listening Rooms
11:30-2:00 Forrest Fire BBQ
12:00 Zoom Door Opens
12:15 Art Noxon - Sweep/Multi-Tone Test for Distortion Room Acoustics
(Pre-Recorded)
1:00 Welcome!
1:05 Scott Hinson - Saturday Seminar Recap
1:30 Wayne Coburn - Pearl 3 Phono Stage
2:00 Tony Salsich - Hill Plasma Tweeter Update
2:15 Jim Tiemann - DIY Store Update
2:25 Tom Voigt - Special Announcement
2:30 Andrew Jones - Why you aren’t measuring what you think you are,
The pitfalls and perils of acoustic measurement (via Zoom)
4:00 Nelson Pass - Zen & Now, the Zenductor Amplifier, Current Projects
5:30 Auction!
5:45-6:30 Zoom Conference social hour
5:45 Raffle
6:00 Swap Meet, Listening Rooms, Social Hour
7:30 Project load out of all but listening room systems.
8:00-9:00 Listening Room Social Hour
9:00-9:30 Cleanup

 

[maximax77]

BRING YOUR CHECKBOOKS!

Is bidding on, say, the FirstWatt amps, for attendees and zoom folks based in the US, or could they be sent across the pond?

 

[Gianluca]

I am flying to San Francisco tomorrow morning, cannot wait to be there! I am bringing one chassis for the Iron Pre Bal and one for the Iron Pre SE kits to add to the raffle

 

[Tom V]

I will ship if you pay the shipping, US or International.
-Tom-

 

[ra7]

This Burning Amp is gonna rock!

 

[SRMcGee]

Tom V and Co.:

I always look forward to Burning Amp and was especially excited this year (build session, NP, Andrew Jones, Wayne, Jim, Mike, Sonoma!) but, at this 11th hour, have just learned I must cancel the trip due to the passing of a member of my extended family. I purchased tickets for both days plus the build session. Would it be possible for me to donate those tickets to some (poor / lucky / present) soul? I'd love for someone to take my place.

I find myself longing for next year.

Regards,
Scott

 

[Tom V]

Remember we will have a Sunday Zoom broadcast, are you available that day?

I purchased tickets for both days plus the build session. Would it be possible for me to donate those tickets to some (poor / lucky / present) soul? I'd love for someone to take my place.

Any of you folks who would otherwise not be able to attend send a PM to SRMcGee and he can PM me to arrange the transfer.

-Tom-

 

[tomchr]

But this is a slow and relaxing vacation.

I-5 would certainly not fit that description. Granted it's horrifically slow through Seattle but far from relaxing. Hwy 101 and 1 would be much better. I did that drive in the summer of 2000 as part of an epic road trip with a couple of friends. Good times.

I'll be flying. 2.5 hours from YYC to SFO then shuttle bus to Petaluma. Should be pretty smooth.

If there's interest I'm happy to swing by the build camp (ideally fashionably late after a hearty breakfast) and help out debugging builds. @6L6 or @Tom V let me know.

It always figures.. the hardware guys like to show up at 5:30AM... us software guys waltz in at around 10:30AM.

Heh. At TI the layout engineers would show up at 7AM. We design engineers would roll in around 9-10AM. That worked out really well. I loved rolling in and having the layout for the circuit I put on the layout guy's desk the night before mostly done and ready for simulation with layout parasitics extracted.

Tom

 

[Pistachioaudiophile]

Hi SRMcGee, I'm sorry to hear about your relative passing. I would like to attend the build camp if you'd like me to take that spot from you. I'll PM you